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Jan 3, 2020

Bryza joins A News to discuss US airstrikes in Iran and Syria

By Atlantic Council

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Jan 3, 2020

Slavin joins CGTN to discuss killing of Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani

By Atlantic Council

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Jan 3, 2020

Fontenrose quoted in The Guardian warning of semi-unpredictable strikes from Iran

By Atlantic Council

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Jan 3, 2020

Slavin interviewed on Bloomberg discussing the assassination of Qassim Soleimani in Iraq

By Atlantic Council

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Jan 3, 2020

El-Gamal quoted in Vox on US-Iran tensions

By Atlantic Council

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New Atlanticist

Jan 3, 2020

Iraq’s parliament may be about to do President Trump a big fat favor

By Kirsten Fontenrose

The biggest favor the Iraqi Parliament can do for US President Donald J. Trump right now is to vote to evict the United States from Iraq. The US president has been clear on his preference for drawing down the US presence in the region rather than beefing it up. Right now, he is asking his advisers why the United States should stay in Iraq, where the two stated missions are to train the Iraqi Security Forces and conduct counterterrorism operations.

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New Atlanticist

Jan 3, 2020

Soleimani killing threatens to break open US-Iranian conflict

By David A. Wemer

The assassination of a top Iranian military official in Iraq on January 2 is the most dramatic step yet in the ongoing escalation between the United States and Iran in the Middle East.

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MENASource

Jan 2, 2020

Iraq: It’s not over yet

By Thomas S. Warrick

No one should think this crisis is over. Iran’s stepped-up campaign to drive the United States out of Iraq will continue in other ways.

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UkraineAlert

Jan 2, 2020

Why we must talk to Russia

By Samuel Charap and Jeremy Shapiro

Right to reply: the Atlantic Council’s UkraineAlert recent published an article by Anders Aslund critical of the October 2019 RAND report “A Consensus Proposal for a Revised Regional Order in Post-Soviet Europe and Eurasia”. This article is a response to Aslund from two of the report’s authors.

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In the News

Jan 2, 2020

Slavin discusses the Iraq embassy attack with WBUR

By Atlantic Council

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